experiences with health visitors?

[moomin35]

What have yours been like?

DC1 - HVs were a total let down. Dc has severe Asd and showed all.classic signs early on yet HV refused to refer to paed or Salt (despite very little speech/language at almost 3) and told me I was an overly anxious mum and the usual every child is different bullshit. A total let down.

Even before we had concerns about DC1, I found them useless at best. I kept the HVs at bay with DC2 and only saw the GP.

I loved my HV where I lived so much that when I moved, I phoned her for advice after not being sure about response from where I was then (P2ndB). just seems to be luck of the draw, as with GP and with lots of other things in life...

The HV I had the misfortune to meet after the birth of my DS was at best incompetent and at her worst dangerous. I refused to engage with MW or HV for the birth of my younger DC.

In my opinion they are useless, never provided me with any useful information, in fact they advised me to do the total opposite to what the hospital pAediatrician advised!

Waste of NHS money if you ask me

Oh and with my dc1 I had pnd, I left lots of messages asking hv to call back, dh telephoned with concerns and to ask for advise and not once did they call back! Thinking about it now I should have made a formal complaint!